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Urine need at NASA

Source: WPVI

Washington : DC : USA | about 1 year ago

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Workers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston are being urged to pee in a cup for the final frontier. Hamilton Sundstrand is working on the new Orion space capsule and needs urine donations to test the toilet system. Advertisement The Orion is designed to eventually take astronauts to the Moon.

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